Need help... about my hands.

[langsam]

Hello everyone, i am new to this forum, i have some difficulties in my hands and would like to seek some advice...i am a piano student.

situation

- i am a right-hander
- my right hand is more powerful, more agile, less independent(fingers) than left hand


anythings that you would suggest me to pay attention while practising?

P.S. i hate technical exercises.

[allthumbs]

- my right hand is more powerful, more agile, less independent(fingers) than left hand

I'm a little confused.

So your left hand is more independent than your right hand, is that correct?

If so that does present different problems that need to be tackled.

[go12_3]

Two questions that will be asked:  Do you have a piano teacher?  How many years of playing the piano?   Now, if you have teacher, then he can assist  you on what the problem is with your hands. From your post, it is confusing.  Because each hand has fingers.....so do you mean the fingers alone or the *hands*?  The fingers are what does the playing the piano, not the hands.   You can click in the Piano Forum  *Search* on the upper left hand corner where it's by between *Help* and *Profile*.   You can type in a topic that you need help in and the posts will appear for you to browse through.  Perhaps that might help you exactly on what you need to look for because from your post here, it doesn't have enough information in it.  Good luck with your *hands.*

best wishes,

go12_3 

[winterwind888]

You must love technical exercises. Even they are out of musicality. You must prolong your patience. When you will be successful in these exercises, you won't regret having your skill improving. Do Hanon too, these are exercises that strengthen your fingers, coordination, and finger independence.

Well its always natural for those who always use the left hand, have more power than the left hand. Whilst, those who use right hand have more power than the right hand. But this situation of yours will be improved if you practice. keep practicing until you get your hands even and independent but coordinated too!

[iroveashe]

You must love technical exercises. Even they are out of musicality. You must prolong your patience. When you will be successful in these exercises, you won't regret having your skill improving. Do Hanon too, these are exercises that strengthen your fingers, coordination, and finger independence.

Finger strength and independence are not necessary, or even possible; coordination is what you need, and I see no reason why you should practice that with Hanon when you could be practicing it with real music (while practicing musicality at the same time).

My advice: Bach 2-Part Inventions, maybe number 1 and/or 8, and work hands separate at first, otherwise your right hand will be always be slowed down by the left while the left will be working over its capacity, trying to keep up with the right and making mistakes.

[langsam]

Finger strength and independence are not necessary, or even possible; coordination is what you need, and I see no reason why you should practice that with Hanon when you could be practicing it with real music (while practicing musicality at the same time).

My advice: Bach 2-Part Inventions, maybe number 1 and/or 8, and work hands separate at first, otherwise your right hand will be always be slowed down by the left while the left will be working over its capacity, trying to keep up with the right and making mistakes.

wow, never think of practising my left hand using Bach , thanks.

i have problems doing left hand because i rarely play melodies with it. So your suggestion is solid. I am still curious why i can't lift my fingers of my right hand as good as left hand, do that comes from faulty practices? I do think i do it right now though.

[appassionata91]

I'm a right hander too, but i have a strong left hand. Sometimes I find that my left hand wants to move faster than my right. I just make sure i practice scales and practice each hand separately. Hopefully you have a bigger span than i do.

[soitainly]

 I want to second the reply about Bach 2 hand inventions, or really any such pieces that really feature counterpunctual playing. You say you hate technical exercizes, I am not a huge fan myself, but a few well placed exercizes can really help with problems.

 Slightly off topic, but I came to piano just a few months ago after many years of guitar. At first I found strength and coordination of the left hand to be on par with the right. I have noticed after many years of guitar, I am more ambidextrous than most people. Now, It's just starting to catch up to me on piano, I feel a bit more strain in the left hand than the right, and have to concentrate harder on the left hand. I am sure that most people have to struggle with this much more than I did, it was kind of nice to have a sort of head start in the dexterity.

[n00bhippy]

P.S. i hate technical exercises.

felt the same way the entire time ive been studying piano (4 to 5 years now i think)
and ive played my fair share of challenging pieces, and was certainly proficient and successful to a certain degree, but today, i finally bit the bullet and busted out the hanon. i think its worth it.

[dec90]

My opinion would be to use Hanon moderately to get that evenness, Hanon is great by itself but it is not as effective as learning pieces. If you are at the respective level try learning Chopin's Revolutionary Etude op 10 no 12. Or work on Baroque pieces. Something from Bach's Well-Tempered Clavichord that makes good use of the left hand.